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...grown accustomed will probably become a lifelong habit. Now we rush from a seminar, to the library, to a meeting, to a party, to another meeting--there are a lot of meetings here. Someday soon we will run from the boardroom, to the gym, to day care, to the PTA meetings--and end up at the shrink...
What do you feel when you get whacked? In my case, nothing, and I remember nothing, which seems weirder still but is actually normal. Doctors speak of "post-traumatic amnesia," PTA for short, to denote this peculiar whiting out of violent episodes. The other car hit me head on but slightly off center; its impact was concentrated on the driver's side. It then spun off the road, though its occupants too, astonishingly, survived. Under such an impact, bones may not just break; they can explode, like a cookie hit by a hammer, and that's what happened to several...
...Carolina grandparents tuck Tiana into bed at night and make her breakfast every morning; they pay for her school and her doctors. Instead of traveling and seeing friends, as they expected to do in their autumn years, they are back in the business of going to birthday parties and pta meetings. For the past seven years, since Tiana's mother left the baby with a sitter and never picked her up (her father moved out two years later), parenting has been their life. "I cried for three days when we knew that this was going to happen," recalls Vickie...
...didn't just follow her father's path toward nursing. She also followed his example in the civic arena, becoming active in Somerville life. She joined the PTA and volunteered for various political campaigns and community associations...
Parents must also do things they may find difficult--like calling a stranger on the phone or going to a meeting of the parents association. But if you demonstrate the desire to get involved in the school community, chances are your child will too. Attend that first PTA meeting or contact members who have children close in age to yours. Ask some general questions--they will undoubtedly fill in the details...